Frode L. Odegard
Founder, Chairman, and CEO

Frode studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.

Frode is the author of a forthcoming book on the post-industrial transition and regularly speaks to international corporate and investor audiences. A serial entrepreneur since his high school years, Frode’s multi-disciplinary background stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom. He has a passion for history, linguistics, disruptive technologies, philosophy, and Iwama-style Aikido.

Mansoor Khan
Head of Strategy and Growth

Mansoor Khan brings deep experience with and insight into how technologies transform a variety of industries. After more than two decades in the Technology Services and Solutions industry, it is this understanding that has enabled him to scale several businesses by 10X or more. He has also had the opportunity to advise and invest in a broad range of startups and enterprises.

Mansoor’s most recent experience was CEO & Board Member of Veltris, where he drove the strategy, vision and growth of the company, delivered 10X growth, and secured a private equity capital raise. In his previous role as EVP & Business Head at Terralogic, Mansoor played a key role in scaling the company from inception (as Infonam) to a 1000+ people company.  Mansoor spent the first 14 year of his career at Aricent (now CapGemini Engineering) across its evolution across Hughes Software to Flex to Aricent to Altran where as Head of Americas, Western Region, he grew the business to be a top revenue generation region.

A consummate learner, Mansoor’s career spans a diverse range of roles, spanning CEO, Board Member, Strategy, Corporate Development, Sales, and Operations Management. Mansoor holds a Masters in Management Studies from BITS, Pilani and is passionate about giving back to his Alma mater. 

Dr. Eythor Ivar Jonsson
VP of Research

In addition to his work with the Institute, Eythor is also the President of Akademias and the Center for Corporate Governance in Iceland. Eythor is furthermore the VP of European Academy of Management (EURAM).

In 2006 Eythor founded an advisory board program in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School which has spawned advisory boards for more than 200 fast-growing Nordic companies. Eythor has created programs for Icelandic companies to improve the corporate governance in association with NASDAQ OMX, Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of industries, as well as accounting firms like KPMG, PWC and Deloitte. He has published more than 700 articles for specialized journals and magazines about business and economics. Eythor earned his doctorate in business administration from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading.

Tom Pai
Chief Financial Officer

Tom has over 25 years of financial and operations experience in technology, media, and consumer products companies ranging in size from start-up to Fortune 100 global enterprises. He helped raise over $150M in venture financing, and played a key role in successful exits totaling $500M.

In addition to his work with Institute, Tom is the CEO and Founder of Sage Development Company, a Boutique Real Estate Development and Investment company focusing on redevelopment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to Founding Sage, Tom was also a Founder and Managing Partner of Sunstone Group, a management consulting practice that specialized in helping early-stage and high-growth companies build the essential foundations for success.

Prior to founding Sunstone Group, Tom was a partner with Ravix Group, a leading startup consulting firm in Silicon Valley. Tom He previously the CFO and COO for several venture backed companies in technology, media, and consumer products. He co-founded DART Partners, an investment firm specializing in underperforming mid-sized companies, and was with Bank of America’s venture capital and private equity group. Tom has an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and a degree in Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.